fuel gauge
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Hey Paul,
Probabaly the quickest and easiest way to diagnose it would be to have someone sit in the car with the key on(not running) and you go under the back unplug the wire from the sender.Using a nail or some other metal item plug that into the socket,and touch/scrape it on a reasonably clean metal area of the body and hold it(you want to ground it).If the gauge needle goes to full and/or further you have a sender issue it's either bad (pretty likely) or stuck (not very likely).There is also a chance that the float on the sender has either come off or that it has gotten a leak and has become gas logged(water logged) .The fact that your gauge is moving is leading me in the direction of you having a sender issue as long as the other gauges are working properly,They are right?
Probabaly the quickest and easiest way to diagnose it would be to have someone sit in the car with the key on(not running) and you go under the back unplug the wire from the sender.Using a nail or some other metal item plug that into the socket,and touch/scrape it on a reasonably clean metal area of the body and hold it(you want to ground it).If the gauge needle goes to full and/or further you have a sender issue it's either bad (pretty likely) or stuck (not very likely).There is also a chance that the float on the sender has either come off or that it has gotten a leak and has become gas logged(water logged) .The fact that your gauge is moving is leading me in the direction of you having a sender issue as long as the other gauges are working properly,They are right?
Hey ,
So the car runs great,Is the choke working/pulling off when warm,etc.? I'm glad to hear it.Hopefully it holds up for you for a long time,These new gas mixes they are selling are not getting along with carburetors too well (don't get me started). Anyhow, one last thing no matter what you or I did with the other carb you had,it would never have run as good. Hopefully the carb I'm doing right now for someone else comes out as good.
Ok fuel gauge, What I was saying is that you lay under the gas tank,you will see where the fuel line and a wire attach to your fuel sender.You unplug the wire from the sender and stick the nail into the hole in the wire and then ground that against clean metal. Assuming you do that correctly that will send a signal to your gas gauge telling it is filled to infinity and the gauge will peg on the high side as high as it can go.If it does that you have a sender issue,If it doesn't let me know.The fact that you confirmed that your other gauges are working leads me to believe your sender is having issues. Did you replace it or was that already done when you got the car? I'm not loving these repo senders these days,I've been having issues with them in a couple of my cars as well lately.
So the car runs great,Is the choke working/pulling off when warm,etc.? I'm glad to hear it.Hopefully it holds up for you for a long time,These new gas mixes they are selling are not getting along with carburetors too well (don't get me started). Anyhow, one last thing no matter what you or I did with the other carb you had,it would never have run as good. Hopefully the carb I'm doing right now for someone else comes out as good.
Ok fuel gauge, What I was saying is that you lay under the gas tank,you will see where the fuel line and a wire attach to your fuel sender.You unplug the wire from the sender and stick the nail into the hole in the wire and then ground that against clean metal. Assuming you do that correctly that will send a signal to your gas gauge telling it is filled to infinity and the gauge will peg on the high side as high as it can go.If it does that you have a sender issue,If it doesn't let me know.The fact that you confirmed that your other gauges are working leads me to believe your sender is having issues. Did you replace it or was that already done when you got the car? I'm not loving these repo senders these days,I've been having issues with them in a couple of my cars as well lately.
......I'm finding more and more these days that new isn't always good. That said let me get back to you on what ones are "good" these days.Bottom line regardless of what you hear they are all coming from the same overseas source (pretty much)and there have been widespread issues with alot of them.I'll dig around and see. You did say that yours was working recently? Do you feel like trying to fix it?Always fun playing with senders because you get to drain the whole tank...... I have a 66 K G.T. That I've been running around in/daily driving ,I put a new sender in ,it didn't work out of the box.Cool.Tested the next one put it in,it reads 3/4 when it's full,I'm living with it for now,I can't be bothered for now.
As far as yours if you had the tank low and wanted to take a look at it,Your's could be that the float came off of the sender.If you look at a sender you'll see the float is only held on by a bent wire.Also it's possible that your float went bad,floats are available seperately.
